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Re: Re: Re: Thwarting Screen Scrapersby dws (Chancellor) |
on Jul 18, 2002 at 17:40 UTC ( [id://182932]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
The addition of a timestamp into the hash calculation is an interesting one.
Interesting, but not what I intended to suggest. Using a timestamp when generating the hash needlessly complicates verification. What I meant to suggest was that you save a timestamp when you record generated IDs. This gives you an easy way to "time out" forms, and flush abandoned forms out of your back-end database. It also sets you up for doing some analysis on things like average submit time (the gap between your generating the form, and a user submitting it). A really low submit time is an indication that there's a bot on the other end of the line.
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